Album Leaf Announce US Tour; Try And Fail To Reunite Cast Of The OC

Somewhere in Los Angeles, Adam Brody (a.k.a. Seth Cohen on The OC) sits and ponders between bong rips what the rest of his former castmates are up to. He puts on an album by The Album Leaf, a band that regularly licensed its songs for his hit teenage melodrama television program half a decade ago, and presses play. Their new album, A Chorus of Storytellers (TMT Review), which came out this month on Sub Pop, fills the room. A single tear rolls down Brody’s cheek as he looks through The Album Leaf’s tourdates and realizes he will be out of town filming a straight-to-DVD movie when they play L.A. Ultimate sadface. :(

Citing delays due to the relentless snowstorm rampaging in the east, Cold Cave have announced the cancellation of a handful of tourdates, which blows. Cold Cave is primarily the synth-pop project of Wesley Eisold (ex-Some Girls), but playing with him on tour are ex-Xiu Xiu member Caralee McElroy and Prurient/Hospital Records founder Dominic Fernow. Man, this weather is bullshit, but the Matablog sez all of the dates are planned to be rescheduled, which is alright. I GUESS.

The kids just can’t seem to swallow enough of that throwback punk-driven garage rock these days. Perhaps it’s the spit-in-your-face attitude, the lack of compositional complexities, or the fact that people just want some straight-up bullet in the head rock music. Whatever it is, it’s a fine thing for psych-twinged Brooklyn spooksters Golden Triangle, because they got themselves a debut full-length jumpin’ out March 2 via Seattle institution Hardly Art. The album is titled Double Jointer, and if you’d like to give your ears a little sneak peek, head over to the Chocolate Grinder. As for me, I’m snatching this thing up strictly for the album artwork.

My Morning Jacket, along with some all-star contributors, recently pitched into the upcoming Preservation Hall benefit album, due February 16 on RED. Out of that experience, something beautiful was born. (Apart from the tracks contributed by Merle Haggard, Tom Waits, Steve Earle, and many others, of course.) That something was the unbelievably dynamic pairing that is: THE PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND/MY MORNING JACKET JOINT TOUR 2010 OMG WOW 4EVA.

A year is a long time. Don’t believe me? Well, a year is 365 days. A year is 8,760 hours. A year is 525,600 minutes. And last, but certainly not least, a year is 31,536,000 seconds. That’s a really big number! A really big number of seconds!

Now, of course, you must agree that a year is a long time. With a number that big, how could it not be? Since we have established that a year is a long time, we must also agree that King Khan’s upcoming comeback tour is accurately titled, since it has been about a year since he last went on tour. Might as well go see him on his one-month spring stretch of dates, since you’ll never know how long it will be until he tours again. It could literally be months.

Phil Selway, drummer of Radiohead is embarking on a solo European tour this March. NME announced in September 2009 that Selway is also working on a solo album; this was corroborated by Lisa Germano of 7 Worlds Collide (a band in which Selway sometimes contributes) in a recent interview. The supposed project name? Boybrain.

Who knows if the solo project will see the light of day or what it’s name will be. The tour on the other hand is a sure thing; Germano will be opening and performing with Phil at all listed dates and here they are: